Example sentences of "[verb] [being] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 2 | These involved being unable to breathe properly , and on occasions even caused her to faint . |
| 3 | Drastic though the remedy is , no firm of solicitors can realistically afford to risk being unable for want of an appropriate agreement to remove any partner whose professional or personal conduct has become an embarrassment or worse . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’ |